11 ideas
9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
22593 | Our sensation of light may not be the same as what produces the sensation [Descartes] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
16569 | The Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry of the philosophers need themselves to be explained [Descartes] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |
20964 | Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion' [Descartes, by Papineau] |